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Cropping for landscapes

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15 June 2012, 22:14
Wink
Cropping for landscapes
In 2009 when I went to Namibia I took a zillion photos in the Namib desert. But pictures of wide sweeping landscapes lose their impact in a square or almost square format. It's not really what I "saw". The solution is simple since almost any software allows you to crop a photo. These were cropped to an approximately 4:1 aspect ratio.

All photos with a Nikon D90 and 18-200mm lens, handheld.











Converted from the RAW file to TIFF with DxO, then cropped, resized and sharpened with Capture NX2.


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16 June 2012, 02:05
Zephyr
Great stuff...Nice eye
05 July 2012, 05:43
El Viejo
Great shots! I'm sure they're quite an improvement over the originals.


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18 July 2012, 07:03
lavaca
Excellent suggestion. The emptiness/openess of Namibia cannot be captured in a square photo. Great pictures by the way.
20 July 2012, 21:40
Dave Anderson
Really like what you've done, those are striking photos to be sure.

I happened to be looking through some of my 2008 video from Sossusvlei a few days ago so found these particularly interesting. I even recognize a couple of the sand dunes.

I'm going to use your concept for some of my stills, just hope I can find a place to have them printed. Thanks for sharing!